Showing 1–100 of 9,765 films
| # | Rank ▲ | Film | Year | Director | Country | Genre | Keywords | Votes | IMDb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | USA | Supernatural | New Hollywood, Body Horror, Psychological Horror, Drama, Religious Film | 752 | IMDb ↗ |
| 2 | 2 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | UK | Psychological | Psychological Horror, Haunted House, Psychological Thriller, Surrealism, Chamber Film | 754 | IMDb ↗ |
| 3 | 3 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 | Tobe Hooper | USA | Slasher | Hixploitation, Southern Gothic, Sadistic Horror, Cannibal | 632 | IMDb ↗ |
| 4 | 4 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | USA | Thriller | Psychological Thriller, Mystery, Slasher, Gothic | 615 | IMDb ↗ |
| 5 | 5 | Halloween | 1978 | John Carpenter | USA | Slasher | Halloween, Home Invasion, Teen Movie | 600 | IMDb ↗ |
| 6 | 6 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | USA | Body Horror | Psychological Horror, Science Fiction, Alien Invasion, Cosmic Horror, Mystery, Splatter, Survival, Thriller | 576 | IMDb ↗ |
| 7 | 7 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | USA | Science Fiction | Extraterrestrial, Body Horror, Psychological Horror, Space Exploration, Survival, Cosmic Horror | 561 | IMDb ↗ |
| 8 | 8 | Rosemary’s Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | USA | Psychological | Mystery, Psychological Horror, New Hollywood, Psychological Thriller, Psychological Drama, Supernatural, Surrealism, Gothic | 550 | IMDb ↗ |
| 9 | 9 | Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero | USA | Zombie | Siege Film, Survival, Epidemic, Chamber Film, Gothic, Cosmic Horror | 522 | IMDb ↗ |
| 10 | 10 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | USA | Natural Horror | Thriller, New Hollywood | 428 | IMDb ↗ |
| 11 | 11 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1984 | Wes Craven | USA | Slasher | Supernatural, Teen Movie, Psychological Horror, Surrealism, Mystery | 516 | IMDb ↗ |
| 12 | 12 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento | Italy | Giallo | Supernatural, Mystery, Gothic, Psychological Horror, Low Fantasy | 452 | IMDb ↗ |
| 13 | 13 | Dawn of the Dead | 1978 | George A. Romero | USA | Zombie | Splatter, Siege Film, Black Comedy, Post-Apocalyptic, Action, Survival, Satire, Epidemic, Horror Comedy | 375 | IMDb ↗ |
| 14 | 14 | The Blair Witch Project | 1999 | Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | USA | Found Footage | Mystery, Supernatural, Psychological Horror, Folk Horror, Survival | 504 | IMDb ↗ |
| 15 | 15 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | USA | Supernatural | Drama, New Hollywood, Coming-of-Age, Psychological Horror, Family Drama, Teen Movie | 391 | IMDb ↗ |
| 16 | 16 | Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | Germany | Vampire | Gothic, German Expressionism | 356 | IMDb ↗ |
| 17 | 17 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | USA | Gothic | Science Fiction, Comedy, Drama | 314 | IMDb ↗ |
| 18 | 18 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | USA | Thriller | Psychological Thriller, Crime, Police Procedural, Mystery | 366 | IMDb ↗ |
| 19 | 19 | An American Werewolf in London | 1981 | John Landis | USA | Werewolf | Black Comedy, Horror Comedy, Body Horror, Romance | 374 | IMDb ↗ |
| 20 | 20 | The Evil Dead | 1981 | Sam Raimi | USA | Splatter | Supernatural, Body Horror, Haunted House, Zombie, Horror Comedy, Chamber Film | 371 | IMDb ↗ |
| 21 | 21 | The Haunting | 1963 | Robert Wise | UK | Supernatural | Haunted House, Psychological Horror, Gothic | 317 | IMDb ↗ |
| 22 | 22 | Don’t Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | UK | Mystery | Psychological Thriller, Psychological Horror, Psychological Drama, Surrealism | 281 | IMDb ↗ |
| 23 | 23 | Poltergeist | 1982 | Tobe Hooper | USA | Supernatural | Haunted House, Family Drama, Digital Horror | 413 | IMDb ↗ |
| 24 | 24 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale | USA | Gothic | Science Fiction, Zombie, Drama | 284 | IMDb ↗ |
| 25 | 25 | Scream | 1996 | Wes Craven | USA | Slasher | Satire, Thriller, Black Comedy, Postmodernism, Teen Movie, Home Invasion, Mystery, Whodunit, Horror Comedy | 418 | IMDb ↗ |
| 26 | 26 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | USA | Body Horror | Science Fiction, Psychological Drama, Romance | 358 | IMDb ↗ |
| 27 | 27 | Evil Dead II | 1987 | Sam Raimi | USA | Comedy | Splatter, Black Comedy, Haunted House, Supernatural, Horror Comedy, Slapstick, Zombie, Body Horror, Claymation, Siege Film | 329 | IMDb ↗ |
| 28 | 28 | The Innocents | 1961 | Jack Clayton | UK | Gothic | Haunted House, Psychological Horror, Mystery, Psychological Drama, Slice of Life | 262 | IMDb ↗ |
| 29 | 29 | The Omen | 1976 | Richard Donner | UK | Supernatural | Thriller, Gothic, Psychological Horror, Psychological Drama, Religious Film | 332 | IMDb ↗ |
| 30 | 30 | Ôdishon | 1999 | Takashi Miike | Japan | Psychological | Psychological Horror, Drama, Sadistic Horror, Mystery, Surrealism, Psychological Thriller, Romance | 364 | IMDb ↗ |
| 31 | 31 | The Wicker Man | 1973 | Robin Hardy | UK | Mystery | Folk Horror, Psychological Drama, Police Procedural, Music | 319 | IMDb ↗ |
| 32 | 32 | Ringu | 1998 | Hideo Nakata | Japan | Supernatural | J-Horror, Mystery, Digital Horror, Psychological Horror, Analog Horror | 317 | IMDb ↗ |
| 33 | 33 | The Birds | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock | USA | Natural Horror | Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Siege Film | 291 | IMDb ↗ |
| 34 | 34 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | USA | Drama | Romance | 234 | IMDb ↗ |
| 35 | 35 | Les yeux sans visage | 1960 | Georges Franju | France | Psychological | Psychological Horror, Body Horror, Psychological Drama, Gothic, Tragedy | 240 | IMDb ↗ |
| 36 | 36 | Peeping Tom | 1960 | Michael Powell | UK | Psychological | Psychological Thriller, Psychological Horror, Drama, Slasher | 219 | IMDb ↗ |
| 37 | 37 | Hellraiser | 1987 | Clive Barker | UK | Supernatural | Body Horror, Splatter, Sadistic Horror, Cosmic Horror, Gothic | 308 | IMDb ↗ |
| 38 | 38 | Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | Germany | Psychological | German Expressionism, Mystery, Psychological Horror, Gothic, Whodunit | 236 | IMDb ↗ |
| 39 | 39 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | USA | Mystery | Psychological Thriller, Drama, Supernatural, Melodrama, Low Fantasy | 259 | IMDb ↗ |
| 40 | 40 | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | Canada | Body Horror | Science Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Satire, Digital Horror, Tech-Noir, Surrealism, Psychological Horror, Erotic Thriller, Postmodernism, Analog Horror | 231 | IMDb ↗ |
| 41 | 41 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur | USA | Mystery | Psychological Horror, Romance, Gothic, Supernatural, Film noir, German Expressionism | 207 | IMDb ↗ |
| 42 | 42 | Repulsion | 1965 | Roman Polanski | UK | Psychological | Psychological Thriller, Psychological Horror, Surrealism, Chamber Film | 207 | IMDb ↗ |
| 43 | 43 | Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning | USA | Vampire | Gothic | 219 | IMDb ↗ |
| 44 | 44 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | USA | Monster | Giant Monster, Adventure, Natural Horror, Romance, Stop-Motion, Low Fantasy, Live-Action Animation | 166 | IMDb ↗ |
| 45 | 45 | Re-Animator | 1985 | Stuart Gordon | USA | Splatter | Body Horror, Zombie, Science Fiction, Black Comedy, Horror Comedy, Gross-Out Comedy | 314 | IMDb ↗ |
| 46 | 46 | Black Christmas | 1974 | Bob Clark | Canada | Slasher | Christmas, Canuxploitation, Mystery, Home Invasion, Police Procedural, Black Comedy | 259 | IMDb ↗ |
| 47 | 47 | Dracula | 1958 | Terence Fisher | UK | Vampire | Gothic | 172 | IMDb ↗ |
| 48 | 48 | Candyman | 1992 | Bernard Rose | USA | Supernatural | Mystery, Psychological Horror, Hood Film, Gothic, Psychological Thriller, Slasher, Folk Horror | 262 | IMDb ↗ |
| 49 | 49 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | USA | Science Fiction | Psychological Horror, New Hollywood, Alien Invasion, Body Horror, Cosmic Horror | 193 | IMDb ↗ |
| 50 | 50 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Don Siegel | USA | Science Fiction | Thriller, Alien Invasion, Satire, Survival, Film noir | 185 | IMDb ↗ |
| 51 | 51 | The Changeling | 1980 | Peter Medak | Canada | Supernatural | Haunted House, Mystery, Gothic, Psychological Horror, Thriller | 186 | IMDb ↗ |
| 52 | 52 | Braindead | 1992 | Peter Jackson | New Zealand | Zombie | Splatter, Black Comedy, Body Horror, Gross-Out Comedy, Horror Comedy, Slapstick, Romantic Comedy, Absurdist Comedy, Family Drama | 268 | IMDb ↗ |
| 53 | 53 | Friday the 13th | 1980 | Sean S. Cunningham | USA | Slasher | Teen Movie, Splatter | 265 | IMDb ↗ |
| 54 | 54 | 28 Days Later… | 2002 | Danny Boyle | UK | Zombie | Post-Apocalyptic, Epidemic, Road Movie, Survival, Dystopian | 442 | IMDb ↗ |
| 55 | 55 | Carnival of Souls | 1962 | Herk Harvey | USA | Psychological | Psychological Horror, Supernatural, Mystery, Surrealism, Gothic | 183 | IMDb ↗ |
| 56 | 56 | The Black Cat | 1934 | Edgar G. Ulmer | USA | Gothic | Crime, Psychological Horror | 118 | IMDb ↗ |
| 57 | 57 | Dead of Night | 1945 | Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer | UK | Anthology | Psychological Horror, Black Comedy, Supernatural, Psychological Thriller, Haunted House | 155 | IMDb ↗ |
| 58 | 58 | Possession | 1981 | Andrzej Zulawski | France | Psychological | Psychological Horror, Psychological Drama, Surrealism, Body Horror, Family Drama, Mystery, Cosmic Horror, Melodrama | 157 | IMDb ↗ |
| 59 | 59 | Les diaboliques | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | France | Mystery | Psychological Thriller, Crime, Psychological Horror | 138 | IMDb ↗ |
| 60 | 60 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | USA | Science Fiction | Action, Extraterrestrial, Siege Film, Body Horror, Space Exploration | 150 | IMDb ↗ |
| 61 | 61 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | 1986 | John McNaughton | USA | Thriller | Crime, Psychological Horror, Sadistic Horror, Slasher | 161 | IMDb ↗ |
| 62 | 62 | Profondo rosso | 1975 | Dario Argento | Italy | Giallo | Whodunit | 171 | IMDb ↗ |
| 63 | 63 | Cannibal Holocaust | 1980 | Ruggero Deodato | Italy | Exploitation | Cannibal Boom, Adventure, Found Footage, Sadistic Horror, Splatter, Snuff Film, Satire | 190 | IMDb ↗ |
| 64 | 64 | Låt den rätte komma in | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | Sweden | Vampire | Drama, Romance, Coming-of-Age, Body Horror, Low Fantasy, Thriller | 486 | IMDb ↗ |
| 65 | 65 | Kaidan | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan | Anthology | Kaidan, Supernatural, Surrealism, Tragedy, Jidaigeki, Psychological Horror | 141 | IMDb ↗ |
| 66 | 66 | The Descent | 2005 | Neil Marshall | UK | Natural Horror | Survival, Adventure, Splatter, Psychological Horror, Action | 429 | IMDb ↗ |
| 67 | 67 | I Walked with a Zombie | 1943 | Jacques Tourneur | USA | Zombie | Mystery, Voodoo Zombie, Supernatural, Psychological Drama, Gothic, Psychological Horror, Romance, Melodrama, Folk Horror | 141 | IMDb ↗ |
| 68 | 68 | La maschera del demonio | 1960 | Mario Bava | Italy | Gothic | Vampire, Romance, Supernatural | 190 | IMDb ↗ |
| 69 | 69 | Night of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | UK | Supernatural | Thriller, Psychological Horror, Folk Horror, Mystery | 148 | IMDb ↗ |
| 70 | 70 | Near Dark | 1987 | Kathryn Bigelow | USA | Vampire | Road Movie, Neo-Western, Weird West, Romance, Action | 200 | IMDb ↗ |
| 71 | 71 | The Return of the Living Dead | 1985 | Dan O'Bannon | USA | Zombie | Black Comedy, Horror Comedy, Splatter, Parody | 199 | IMDb ↗ |
| 72 | 72 | Jacob’s Ladder | 1990 | Adrian Lyne | USA | Psychological | Psychological Horror, Psychological Thriller, Psychological Drama, War, Mystery, Surrealism, Neo-Noir | 161 | IMDb ↗ |
| 73 | 73 | Se7en | 1995 | David Fincher | USA | Thriller | Neo-Noir, Crime, Police Procedural, Psychological Thriller, Buddy Cop, Whodunit, Psychological Horror | 142 | IMDb ↗ |
| 74 | 74 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | France | Vampire | Supernatural, Gothic, Psychological Horror, Surrealism, Experimental, Slow Cinema, Mystery | 149 | IMDb ↗ |
| 75 | 75 | Onibaba | 1964 | Kaneto Shindô | Japan | Psychological | Jidaigeki, Psychological Horror, Folk Horror, Kaidan, War, Family Drama, Japanese New Wave | 118 | IMDb ↗ |
| 76 | 76 | Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | USA | Thriller | Psychological Thriller, Chamber Film, Psychological Horror, Black Comedy | 178 | IMDb ↗ |
| 77 | 77 | Eraserhead | 1977 | David Lynch | USA | Psychological | Surrealism, Psychological Horror, Body Horror, Experimental, Absurdist Comedy, Dystopian, Family Drama, Black Comedy, Slow Cinema, Gothic, Chamber Film | 171 | IMDb ↗ |
| 78 | 78 | Dracula | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola | USA | Vampire | Gothic, Romance | 203 | IMDb ↗ |
| 79 | 79 | Phantasm | 1979 | Don Coscarelli | USA | Supernatural | Science Fiction, Cosmic Horror | 155 | IMDb ↗ |
| 80 | 80 | Fright Night | 1985 | Tom Holland | USA | Vampire | Comedy, Teen Movie | 165 | IMDb ↗ |
| 81 | 81 | …E tu vivrai nel terrore! L’aldilà | 1981 | Lucio Fulci | Italy | Supernatural | Splatter, Zombie, Southern Gothic, Haunted House, Cosmic Horror, Gothic, Body Horror, Surrealism | 155 | IMDb ↗ |
| 82 | 82 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | 1954 | Jack Arnold | USA | Science Fiction | Adventure, Natural Horror | 123 | IMDb ↗ |
| 83 | 83 | The Ring | 2002 | Gore Verbinski | USA | Mystery | Supernatural, Digital Horror, Psychological Horror, Analog Horror, J-Horror | 318 | IMDb ↗ |
| 84 | 84 | The Howling | 1981 | Joe Dante | USA | Werewolf | Supernatural, Body Horror, Satire | 167 | IMDb ↗ |
| 85 | 85 | Day of the Dead | 1985 | George A. Romero | USA | Zombie | Post-Apocalyptic, Splatter, Epidemic, Satire, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Drama, Siege Film | 165 | IMDb ↗ |
| 86 | 86 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | USA | Thriller | Southern Gothic, Crime, Drama, Film noir, Gothic, Period Drama, Coming-of-Age | 106 | IMDb ↗ |
| 87 | 87 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian | USA | Gothic | Drama, Science Fiction, Crime, Romance | 120 | IMDb ↗ |
| 88 | 88 | The Brood | 1979 | David Cronenberg | Canada | Body Horror | Psychological Horror, Canuxploitation, Science Fiction, Mystery, Psychological Drama, Family Drama | 141 | IMDb ↗ |
| 89 | 89 | Funny Games | 1997 | Michael Haneke | Austria | Thriller | Psychological Thriller, Satire, Home Invasion, Postmodernism, Psychological Horror, Sadistic Horror, Chamber Film, Black Comedy, Buddy | 143 | IMDb ↗ |
| 90 | 90 | The Old Dark House | 1932 | James Whale | USA | Gothic | Chamber Film, Comedy, Mystery | 100 | IMDb ↗ |
| 91 | 91 | The Wolf Man | 1941 | George Waggner | USA | Werewolf | Gothic | 162 | IMDb ↗ |
| 92 | 92 | The Others | 2001 | Alejandro Amenábar | Spain | Supernatural | Haunted House, Mystery, Psychological Horror, Gothic, Psychological Drama | 292 | IMDb ↗ |
| 93 | 93 | Creepshow | 1982 | George A. Romero | USA | Anthology | Black Comedy, Zombie, Body Horror, Natural Horror, Science Fiction, Splatter, Supernatural, Horror Comedy | 143 | IMDb ↗ |
| 94 | 94 | The Babadook | 2014 | Jennifer Kent | Australia | Psychological | Psychological Horror, Psychological Drama, Family Drama, Gothic | 399 | IMDb ↗ |
| 95 | 95 | The Phantom of the Opera | 1925 | Rupert Julian | USA | Gothic | Melodrama | 120 | IMDb ↗ |
| 96 | 96 | The Mummy | 1932 | Karl Freund | USA | Supernatural | Mummy, Romance, Gothic | 133 | IMDb ↗ |
| 97 | 97 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | USA | Science Fiction | Black Comedy, Crime, Police Procedural | 134 | IMDb ↗ |
| 98 | 98 | Le locataire | 1976 | Roman Polanski | France | Psychological | Psychological Thriller, Mystery, Psychological Horror, Surrealism, Black Comedy, Gothic, Postmodernism | 80 | IMDb ↗ |
| 99 | 99 | Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | Edgar Wright | UK | Zombie | Black Comedy, Parody, Horror Comedy, Comedy, Buddy, Romantic Comedy, Epidemic, Siege Film, Splatter, Action | 341 | IMDb ↗ |
| 100 | 100 | From Dusk Till Dawn | 1996 | Robert Rodriguez | USA | Vampire | Action, Black Comedy, Neo-Western, Weird West, Road Movie, Splatter, Crime, Exploitation, Supernatural, Body Horror, Horror Comedy, Siege Film | 138 | IMDb ↗ |
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